Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Although Kubernetes is a great solution for managing containerized applications, scaling, and automating deployment, a local development on it may be a painful experience. A typical workflow includes several steps…
An ability to handle communication failures in an inter-service communication is an absolute necessity for every single service mesh framework. It includes handling of timeouts and HTTP error codes. In…
Istio is currently the leading solution for building service mesh on Kubernetes. Thanks to Istio you can take control of a communication process between microservices. It also lets you secure…
In this article I’ll guide you through the steps required for building and running simple Kotlin microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine. We will use such and framework like Spring Boot,…
Kubernetes doesn’t provide built-in support for ConfigMap or Secret versioning. Sometimes such a feature may be useful, when we are deciding to rollback a current version of our application. In…
In this article I'm going to introduce my newest library for registering Spring Boot applications running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The motivation for creating this library has already been described…
There are several best practices for building microservices architecture properly. You may find many articles about it online. One of them is my previous article Spring Boot Best Practices For…
The main goal of this article is to show how to monitor Spring Boot applications running on Kubernetes with Spring Boot Admin. I have already written about Spring Boot Admin…
There are many tools, which may simplify your local Java development on Kubernetes. For Java applications you may also take an advantage of integration between popular runtime frameworks and Kubernetes.…
Hazelcast is the leading in-memory data grid (IMDG) solution. The main idea behind IMDG is to distribute data across many nodes inside a cluster. Therefore, it seems to be an…